{"id":82502,"date":"2026-09-05T22:01:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T14:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=82502"},"modified":"2026-09-05T22:01:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T14:01:59","slug":"one-person-taken-to-hospital-after-simon-lane-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=82502","title":{"rendered":"One person taken to hospital after Simon Lane house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>CNA reader Sophie Wei, who stays in Kovan, said she saw bright orange flames and thick smoke that were &#8220;visible from a considerable distance&#8221; at about 3.20pm, with the fire spreading across the building and through parts of the roof.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sections of the roof later appeared to collapse about an hour later, with parts of the structure blackened by the fire, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Wei noted that after the fire appeared to have been initially brought under control, flames and smoke became visible again at around 5.50pm, with the fire seemingly reignited.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 9.15pm, CNA saw SCDF vehicles present at the site as personnel continued spraying water around the home. Its facade was blackened by the blaze, while the smell of smoke lingered in the air.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/fire-simon-lane-one-person-hospital-6364706\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNA reader Sophie Wei, who stays in Kovan, said she saw bright orange flames and thick smoke that were &#8220;visible from a considerable distance&#8221; at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--w7k7u70P--\/c_crop,h_759,w_1350,x_0,y_125\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/09\/05\/2_panel_composite_62.png?itok=ROGYl72A","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[202,184,1196,11884,7376,16583],"class_list":["post-82502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-fire","tag-hospital","tag-house","tag-lane","tag-person","tag-simon","wpcat-2-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}